Mina the Hollower

Genuine banger that I can't reccomend enough. A game with incredible depth that lets you choose how deep you want to go without punishing you for it.

Exploração que recompensa sua criatividade e observação. Grande variedade de equipamentos e técnicas para o combate.

Meh, pretty mid. I'm not masochistic enough to enjoy the gameplay, but everything else was nice. Edit: alright the ending was pretty cool if you think about it, definitely worth tne money.

A top down adventure game with plenty of bite and nifty secrets to find. Satisfying combat that can be modified with different weapons and trinkets. Mina the Hollower is not afraid to leave the player to their own devices while still giving enough cues to push them in the right direction. Funny and funky characters. Video games don't get much better than this.

A lot of fun! Great music, addictive gameplay and overall awesome :)

My favourite so far for this year. Really nails the retro aesthetic it's going for while still managing to be incredibly intelligently designed, slick as hell and just full of life, character and secrets everywhere. Definitely can be pretty challenging at times but it's non-linear enough with so many different loadout options that you can always try a different approach or just come back later. I also really liked how it's designed to be 100%ed without needing to rely on any external information, the tools within the game are completely sufficient and are made available at a sensible time in the playthrough.

I've finished the game moments ago and this was genuinely one of the most fun gaming experiences (and %100s) I've had in a while, definitely my GOTY 2026. Gameplay, level design, artstyle were superb. I also liked the characters and OST, though they were a bit weaker than Shovel Knight's (to be fair, SK has peak OST so being weaker than that is no crime). I've played SK back when it came out in 2014 and I've also did tons of runs in it, including no death run and speedrun achievements, I feel like Mina is a worthy successor and was well worth the wait. I actually want to replay SK after this, and will most likely return to Mina in the future for a NG+ with weird modifiers enabled. I hope it was succesful enough so we can see Yacht Club cook more masterpieces, they have galvanized the "my favorite indie studio" title with this game.

One of the best games I have ever played.

I've played it for hundreds of hours and will continue to play it. It found me during an extremely rough period of my life and was my light at the end of the tunnel. This game has all the things I'm a sucker for: I've played Link's Awakening a billion times, I instabuy games that look like Gameboy games, I love Castlevania/metroidvanias, I love the cute mouse........ grah. I did not care for Shovel Knight, was expecting to go into this and have it be very middling, but was so so pleasantly greeted with so much care put into every screen. Every screen transition is its own challenge, its own puzzle, or is implicitly teaching you something new. Every area has a banger track and cute NPCs and enemies. It's constantly subverting expectations and showing tiny details when you think you've learned everything there is to learn. It has an absurd amount of modifiers and a randomizer built into NG+. It's $20 !!!? It's been a long time since I've been this brainwormed by a video game. I can't sing its praises enough. If you read a negative review about this game, it was from someone that hates playing video games. I'm convinced. They want to watch a movie. They get upset if a scene lingers on for too long and they have to sit with an uncomfortable emotion, they're only here to log it for their letterboxd. /hj Please give Mina a try.

If you can get over the initial hump of figuring out the controls, this is a great game that will suck you in and leave you wondering how it got to be so late.